Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Re: Top Menu Item: rename "Display" to "View" and move one to the

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From: "Ulf Lamping" <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:18:21 +0200
Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb am 17.10.03 23:42:19:
> 
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 01:36:48PM +0200, Ulf Lamping wrote:
> > IMHO the current "Display->User Specified Decodes..." and
> > "Tools->Decode As..." dialogs are a bit odd in a usability point of
> > view.  It's not obvious, that this is a pair and where to find from one
> > to the other.
> 
> That raises another issue.
> 
> "Decode As" isn't something to let you edit the full set of decodes -
> unlike, for example, the "-d" flag in Tethereal.  It's something to let
> you change the way the values of some fields in the currently-selected
> packet can be decoded.
> 
> It might be useful to have something to let you view, and edit, *all*
> the dissector tables, which would be like an editable version of the
> current "User Specified Decodes".
> 
> It might also be useful to have something to change the way the values
> of fields in the current packet can be decoded - *and* perhaps to also
> say "decode a *conversation* or *circuit* containing this packet as a
> particular protocol".  That'd be like the current "Decode As...".
> 
> "User Specified Decodes" might be under "Edit", and "Decode As..." might
> be under "Tools".
> 
> We then might want to have a way to save the user-specified decodes. 
> (This might let us get rid of some of the protocol "port number"
> preferences.)

This is one of the things, which have to looked at, in a more general perspective. This will affect other things as the "Display Filters" as well.

So I would like to fix the obvious (and trivial) things first, and then go back to this kind of things.

Regards, ULFL
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